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I agree with you on this. I had high hopes for this and have came back to it a few times and just get bored. I think POE and now POE2 have raised the bar too high for ARPGS. I'm hoping Titan Quest 2 is amazing, as Grim Dawn is also top tier.

HOW ARE YOU NOT VIRAL!?! This is great, man.

Heyo, poison resistance is tied to Chaos resistance. Not sure if it says that anywhere in tool tips or the "detailed view" via the alt button, but there ya go. Also, I think you'll find a lot more criticisms in the endgame/mapping, but the Acts were fairly solid barring the few things you mentioned (namely, area size is a huge one). Regarding your comment on sharing criticisms, I'll list a few that I didn't see. - Spec requirements are a little deceiving, nobody is going to be playing this game on a 3gb VRAM GTX 960. I have a 1660ti and endgame mapping can be unplayable at times, and my card (and CPU) blow the min spec requirements out of the water and just barely fall short of recommended. - Rare-on-death explosion effect in maps. It does no damage, but bloats visual clarity considering there ARE on death effects that deal damage. The animation tanks my fps from 80~ average to 26 (can see a vid on my channel) - Some memory leaks still present since POE1 that force restarting the client if you tab out too many times, otherwise you play with an unplayable stutter every 5 seconds - All endgame content is far too punitive for players. Dying on an endgame map/zone completely removes the map, meaning you need to farm/buy/reforge/beg chat for a new one of the same tier you were running. Pinnacle bosses, Trial bosses for ascendancy, the Citadel Guardians who you need to kill in order to get to the pinnacle boss-- all of them are one-try or you fail, and if you fail, you have to rely on RNG procedurally generated end-game map to find them again. Though I got lucky and found all 3 citadels fairly close to eachother within reason, it was also after 100's of maps, and 140 hours of playtime (probably 60-80 of which were in endgame). Many users reporting that the RNG is simply too much, hundreds of maps without finding a single Citadel meaning you are barred access to endgame content purely based on RNG procgen map, and if you desync, die to an overtuned mechanic, oneshot etc, you have to search all over again for however many, MANY hours. - On death effects are everywhere in every map and is super annoying, visual clarity in endgame mapping is fairly poor alongside on-death effects (with the rare death effect again NOT doing damage, though they can have affixes that DO make them do damage on death...) - The 4th ascendancy trials are simply too long. It takes at least 30 minutes to clear 3 floors of the Sekhema trial, and you have to do a 4th for the final ascendancy alongside the Pinnacle boss, which again is a one-try thing. The Trial of Chaos Trialmaster requires 3 "keys" to open his door for a single chance to fight him. It takes BARE MINIMUM 30 rounds of Chaos Trial to get his keys. The key drops are completely RNG based on which final boss you get after your 10 rounders. Even after completing 30 rounds, you may have got the same boss each time, therefore you don't get the key that you need to fight the Trialmaster and must run again. Furthermore, the Trialmasters door is AT THE END of the 10 rounds, so even assuming you buy them all via trade, or found them all and logged out, you need to do another 10 rounds (without dying!) and THEN fight him, spend your keys (disappear! single use!) to fight him with a single attempt! For a mandatory feature of character progression, this is a horrible system and encourages bussing/carries instead (though I can hardly comment as I used to carry Hardcore POE1 Uber Lab for people lol). This coupled with the numerous TRUE oneshot mechanics on these bosses means your first time fighting them REQUIRES a TH-cam guide or you're essentially gambling and throwing away your key and wasted time as you have no opportunity to actually train or practice or get used to the boss. And the keys cost in currency what would amount to hours and hours or even days of grinding assuming you don't get insane crazy valuable drops in that time. - Warrior plays like absolute garbage compared to the rest of the characters-- or rather, Mace skills play horribly as you can use any weapon with any character. In the endgame, they simply don't scale to the same level as ANY other weapons. They are slower, do less damage, have less area of effect, and there is such a lack of defensive options even with maximum resist, high physical damage resistance (70%+), high eHP, and even maximum block chance. You will still regularly get chunked or even oneshot by not only bosses, but REGULAR white mobs and on-death effects despite all of these layers of defense. - Dodge-roll reliance on avoiding one-shot mechanics that were otherwise things you could gear for in POE1. Funny considering there is actually a node that REMOVES dodge-roll on the passive tree. I didn't agree/understand the criticisms of dodge-roll initially as it felt good, but in the end-game if you aren't dodge-rolling 90% of boss attacks and don't have some permanent crowd-control such as repeat freezing/shocking the boss, you are going to die without rolling. Feels fairly bad considering the amount of theorycrafting we would do to specifically gear against bosses and survive their big hit mechanics in the first game. - There is a HUGE deprecation of numerous systems in the game that is almost inexplicable. The reforge bench can only reforge a single item at a time. In POE1, if you wanted to reforge a bunch of maps into higher-tier maps, you could go to any vendor, "sell" items, and throw your whole inventory of maps in there and it would spit out the appropriate amount of maps that result from combining them all. In POE2, it's a single map at a time to upgrade. Ridiculous, and it also costs like 300-500,0000 gold just to reforge up to... Tier 5 maps... yeah. - Crafting has been severely nerfed/simplified and randomized/gamblerized compared to the first game. Lack of alteration orbs, scouring orbs, bench crafting, the list goes on - Won't be everyones experience but performance was awful. Breaches tank fps to 10 per second if you have a decent build. Maps just won't load entire models of the ground and characters, instead being grey spaces or completely see-through with invisible hordes of enemies attacking you, invisible pools of DoT poison until they load in etc. - Removal of the auction house/in-game trading market and a return to having to use........ third party websites and discord servers to trade? Currency exchange is nice to have however. - You need to KILL THE FINAL BOSS of any of the league mechanics in order to "spec" into them via the atlas tree. This is not how POE1 worked but it makes mapping so much more reptitive. In POE1, you complete a single new map, you get a new point, you can put that point ANYWHERE and into ANYTHING and you could specialize into running the content you enjoyed. In POE2, you can not. You have to rely on RNG to find the Expedition boss. Complete RNG of first of all-- finding the Expedition Logbooks. Second of all-- the chance of him actually being IN THE LOGBOOKS (have done 10+ logbooks, nothing, and no worthy loot either = waste and disrespect of my time). Speccing into breach means you have to open like 50 breaches to get the necessary splinters to actually fight the Breach boss, then you need to complete his whole area in one chance, and then him, in order to spec into the mechanic at all. They also again didn't cut down on length in this aspect, similar to the Trials, there will be 15 waves to complete... and then the boss... again under the pretext of having one single attempt, or you have to open 50 breaches again! And get the splinters you need! And try it all over again - Map has a loading screen? - Passive tree and ascendancies much less useful than previous game - No ability to respec out of your chosen ascendancy, only the ability to remove the allocated points... - GGG takes an attitude of nerfing things that are too strong instead of buffing what is far too weak in terms of player builds/skills/gear. Watching anybody play Monk or Ranger or Sorceress over Warrior is like watching POE1 versus watching somebody play Elden Ring Regarding things I really liked - Visually beautiful game for what it is (an isometric ARPG). - Dialogue and voice acting is stellar, particularly love the dialogue of Rog, Gwennen and Dannig once you get to the endgame/mapping and find them in various areas (they are the "Expedition" NPCs). - Cinematics! Though they are quite stylized, was nice to see cinematics between the acts - Uncut gem system for skills is very preferred over having to find individual skill gems/picking individual rewards from quests/trading. However it also has its flaws regarding skill gem level and whatnot of course. - Combat feels very satisfying, particularly bosses are no longer a pushover until the absolute endgame bosses as was the case in POE1, and they are all designed spectacularly, save for the really buggy Colossus fight in the Valley of Titans if you're a melee character (but they end up not even using bosses in endgame maps at all unless you get a specific modifier for map to contain a unique boss, which is a weird decision) I'd say that unfortunately, the things I enjoy really do not make up for what I don't enjoy. It feels like a big downgrade from POE1 in most respects personally, aside from visuals and the combat system, as most of the mechanics are just shells of what they used to be. Early Access is an understandable retort to that claim, but let me remind you the game has been in development for 5 years, and they mostly copy pasted not only the story and areas, but just about all of the mechanics from the first game, only again as I mentioned, in a FAR lesser capacity than they were in POE1, despite having all the framework and player feedback/data they need from the first game.

This is a really good video man. For what it's worth, though it means nothing, I fully thought this was a million view video from a huge TH-camr. Got my like and sub. I've been playing Path of Exile 2 and been really disappointed in the lies, false promises, lack of polish, poor optimization, basically clickbaity/incorrect spec requirements and a lot more stuff (though I still leveled to endgame and fought pinnacle bosses). Was looking at trying Last Epoch and though I've seen a lot of good, ultimately the video dissuaded me from wasting my money on an experience I likely would not have enjoyed much/regretted purchasing somewhere along the line. Thank you. Cheers.

TP disappears after 8-15 min of not been used and the zone instance is gone. Pretty much to not overwhelm the servers and anti-afk system.

I'd also like if everyone could share all their thought in the comments both good and bad! Let me know what you like and do not like, or if you're waiting for the full release, or have no interest at all.

I basically agree with everything. LE should study this video and then implement changes to best fit the enjoyment factor. I hate the loot. I hate the monster feel. I literally spam click on the top conversation choice just to get through it quicker. The skills are cool. I really enjoy the stash, the crafting is okay. I have 3 level 80 characters and I just dont see the need to keep going. I make a new one each time theres major improvements. The last character was more enjoyable, but still very lacking.

I personally think your review is too critical, without really acknowledging that we are dealing with an indie-title in a very expansive genre. But still your points of criticism , are pretty valid and I think generally areas that could see some major improvements.

well i just did my 150 runs too... highest rune was a Ko... and only 2 keys

Have had Ber drop in the room 2 seasons ago

Absolutely not worth it

Great review. I found this very helpful.

Concise and succinct appraisal. Glad i took a break when I did. I cant imagine Masaja or Emporer of Corpses with 3 phases split by wards. Yikes!

That cartoon sorc teleport 😂😂

I found a Shako from dolls on the way to nm terrorised mephisto 😅

"Well Shit" LOL

While hunting a lum I got 6 keys and 3 pul 😅

This is Nova Blizzard ?

Great video, LE is the worst game i've ever played

Champ devilken on way dropped ber rune for me first run in hell on ladder!

15 el or eld can be sold on traderie for Lo easily

Nice video, thank you for the content!

This video is super informative, but I do want to say "helms are all over, most either having great defense and lacking affixes, or lacking affixes but great defense" was really funny to me. Had to double back and make sure I heard it right.

when seeing this I just think d2 did loot so good. some rares were BIS, but most of the time BIS would be unique or runeword. some uniques were so good allrounders, that you could use them on any class and they would be very popular among all players...everyone knew what a shako, a stormshield, a soj is. finding a high rune like a ber or jah, would have many potential usecases and finding one would spike excitement project diablo 2 just improved on these aspects, highly recommend it. I liked last epoch in my first playthrough. what's especially good is the skill and build diversity and that you can just try out what you think is good and it will probably work - if not you respec. But other than that you make some valid points. I also had very aggressive loot filter in endgame because it was just too much....but then I farmed for hours withoout any noticable upgrade and if I would find uniques they would have some weird debuff or would seem so specific that I would put them in stash .....and never use them...never trade them...they would be just sitting in the stash.

I don't get why they hid so much (of the better) content in dungeons that are inaccessible for so long, meanwhile MC is so meh and samey. Finished MC with 3keys total, quickly burnt through... then what? I quit after some boring maps grind, that's what.

I'm not sure how high the drop table is but act 3 terrorized in nightmare can for sure drop up to ohm.

Hello friends! Thanks so much for watching and please feel free to continue sharing your thoughts (good and bad) down below! There are a couple amendments and clarifications I'd like to make as I've been venturing further. First is with Gold: I stated Gold is near pointless, but after getting through the Lightless Arbor you get to gamble increasing amounts of Gold for better potential reward output, which can get into the 100,000s, so Gold can definitely be hoarded for that. I also highlighted an item where it removes health while increasing Ward. It works well, sure, but when your Ward breaks you're immidiately dead. Lastly is some confusion surrounding the Loot Filter. I like the Loot Filter. The problem is there's too much useless and meaningless loot to filter out. Including mass repeat Set and Unique items. Last Epoch does some things well, but misses the mark on so many others. Please understand I purchased LE to add to my ARPG repertoire, not to hate on it. However, LE failed me. And this review reflects that.

last epoch and other action rpg games will not understand why poe is so successful..... CUZ THE AMOUNT OF GEM SKILL CUSTOMIZATION ONE CAN DO!!!... and also update contents as well. there.

I would add wizendraw for the negative to cold resistance

Liked the video before watching it. These are the types of videos I like to watch. These and the HC SSF normal-hell runs. Subbed, and I hope you keep making more d2r content, I love your videos!

I hope they allow you to farm the ascendancy gems in path of exile 2. In the first game, you could take an attack gem, then put it in a device if you did the ascendancy multiple times. And it would let you get a random normal skill except it is set up as if it has a support gem built in it. And I hope the ability that lets you teleport back in time is not just locked to the mage now, because that was my favorite ability.

Weirdly I like D2's graphic (especially colors) more than PoE2's in your video :)

nice vid, thanks

After 24 hours you only found 1 rune

When it comes to upgrading, I look at it like this. If I can farm the runes from Nightmare countess to make a significantly better weapon/armor it's not worth it. So for the most part it has to be better than an Honor weapon, Stealth, ancient pledge, or Lore. And since defense does not do enough to really chase, I would say it's just not worth it outside of Bonesnap (If I ever find a 300% bonesnap I'm taking that sucker to elite), and the belts.

Good thing i never bought this game

I’m hoping there are cast on crit Gems like in Poe 1. Why cast one skill while you can cast multiple mwhahahaha!

Question of the day dualwield cross bow? Cuz it will be op

i am so hyped brother ,i cant describe it , i feel like 12 again (27)

Pretty sure you will be able to use 12-13 skills on controller. Holding L2 (I believe) will give you access to a whole separate skill layout.

Since you mentioned not understanding resistances, I'll explain them here. Your resists cap at 75 and every monster level up to 75 penetrates 1% (additive) of your resists, leading to level 75+ enemies penetrating all of your resists (effectively you have 0% resistance against them). This happens regardless of how much resistance you total up: even if you get 120% fire resistance, your cap is 75% and level 75+ enemies penetrate all of it. This sounds incredibly bad but it's intended to work to make resists feel less mandatory. Most Diablo-like ARPGs scale resistances exponentially, with each 1% additional max resist giving you significantly more overall damage reduction than the previous ones. For a hypothetical example, if you have 90% resistance and you go up to 91% resistance, you're actually reducing damage by 10% rather than 1% (100 damage reduced by 90% is 10, 100 reduced by 91% is 9, 10% less than 10). In games like D4 and PoE this makes resistances overwhelmingly important since each point below your maximum resistance increases the amount of damage you take far in excess of the 1% more it looks like you should take. I don't know the actual math behind Last Epoch's resists, but the way it's supposed to work, each 1% less resistance actually is 1% more damage taken, not much more than that like in most Diablo-like ARPGs. As a result of this, EHG stated that the endgame was balanced around players having effective 0% elemental resistance and that going lower, by way of having less than 75% resistance, would be far less punishing than doing so in, say, D4 or PoE, where playing endgame content below the resistance cap turns nearly all damage of that element into a one-shot. The practical upshot of this, though, is that resistances are very weak defensive investments in Last Epoch and that raw health (or ward, for classes that can generate it) is much more important. You can reach 75% resistance in most elements through implicit affixes on items and Monolith blessings and so the most optimal way to build defensively in the endgame is to ignore resistances and get as much flat health and percentage health (or Ward and Ward retention) as possible. Resistances on gear are good in the early game but a trap later on. IMO the game does a very bad job of explaining this; I got this explanation from people on the Last Epoch subreddit who actually did the math to figure things out when the system was changed a few years ago. Aside from all of this, I would also say that some attacks are just poorly balanced and deal disproportionately large or small amounts of damage. As you experienced throughout the video, there are some elemental attacks that never did significant damage to me no matter what my resistances were, and others that were extremely dangerous even when I stacked a lot of health or Ward. It's definitely possible that you could have survived some of the attacks that one-shotted you if you'd prioritized max health over resists, but it's also possible they would have killed you even if you'd built your defenses correctly. Either way the character sheet should do a better job of explaining exactly how offensive and defensive mechanics work. IMO this is true for most Diablo-like ARPGs: all the way back to D2 the character sheet was wrong more than it was right, and while modern Diablo-like ARPG UIs show a lot more information, a lot of the information they do show is poorly explained at best.

This is not a review, but child's cry :D Just go back to D4 that caters to simple people.

I love this gsme...

100% agree on all said. When I end up just pushing some corruption and I realize it has no point at all I just quit. Story is 0/10 - This game probably have the worst Story (if any) ever. What you do is basically run in to people who talk nonsens and thats all. Game interaction 2/10 - 4 words per row and I have to click 4 times to get out of it. This is just terrible man. And when you try to read it its like "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Game play/mechanics 7/10 - No doubt there are a lot of interesting Singery/Mechanics in the game. Game Crafting system - 5/10 - Oh boy all were hyped about this. And it end so badly .. You dont even care at big part to actually craft any items. Player to Player interactions - (-10)/10 - You basically play a single player version of the game. No mechanics that includes other players or anything to have meaning at all. (Except trading with people if u choose that Path, I didnot so ...) It took me 2-3 weeks to stop playing it. And now when I see the charts, I know I'm not the only one :)

While you have some points I agree with (and of course some that I don't agree with), your overuse of hyperbole (for example the items on the ground reminding you of mobile games??), extremely sarcastic tone, too much attention to unimportant details just to be pedantic in an overly negative way and the fact that you heart all comments that agree with you thus reducing any actual conversation under the video absolutely sour what could have been a normal critique review and an actually useful one at that. What you have here instead is a childlike venting that has some good points that are unfortunately barely agreeable with because of the way the whole video is presented. If you want to actually review something next time try being more constructive, focusing less on pedantic details and being less passive-aggressive in general, or just don't review games you obviously dislike too much to try and have an objective stance in the way you speak.

Upcoming content for a game: "ARE THEY WITHHOLDING CONTENT FROM THE GAME? THEN WHY ISNT IT OUT YET?" seriously that's some impressive logic. By that logic all games with updates are just withholding content... lel

Edge is soo good with a summon necro and amp dmg! I actually have a lvl 92 rn that holds the edge himself, however I dont shoot it . Most would grab a might merc, but I prefer a prayer one, or a5 with a headstriker! a3 fire isnt bad either for the enchant. Anyways just do nothing other than cast amp dmg on bosses and corpse explode if your bored. Everything destroys itself to the thorns, clay golems on bosses and thorns hits back about 1\4 - 1\6 of the bosses health, its crazy lol

I would be happy with just 1 more skill slot. Would make my build just right. Having played a lot of Grim Dawn a while back it is quite limiting but not be all end all.

Cool thanks

Too bad Thundergod's is made for a stabazon My pally would love that thing and I could swap over to a zeal based build that still 2nd specced FotH. (no one hard casts holybolt)